Cedric, As I mentioned to Tom, you might want to have a look at IMagick (PHP wrapper for ImageMagick). It's far superior to GD, IMO.
http://www.php.net/imagick jonathan On Aug 22, 1:36 am, Cédric Sadai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I did some similar work recently, I noticed a certain number of > limitations with sfThumbnailPlugin, for GD at least: > > - doesn't handle well the difference between portrait and landscape > format. If my thumb size is 400*300 and the pic is a portrait, I want > it to be automatically set to 300*400. > - doesn't handle well the scale option. It scales anyway, even when > set to false. > - doesn't handle well the squarize option, of course because it's > impossible to squarize well if you scale (other words, you HAVE to > crop to make a good square). > > All these things are more complicated than it seems, it's some good > math actually. I've rewritten everything, and will certainly propose a > plugin/patch out of it, for the GD part. > > What's your problem exactly? > cedric > > On Aug 21, 2:38 pm, Tom Haskins-Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I've just come across this [Prototype JavaScript Image Cropper UI][1]. > > It's quite cool and by all accounts *seems* to be pretty good across > > multiple browsers. > > > My questions is: has anyone written any backend stuff to process the > > image crop? I've made some (messy) extensions to the sfThumbnail plugin > > and got it working fine, but I was wondering if anyone had done a better > > job. > > > If not, I'll try and package it all into a separate plugin. I'm happy to > > do the GD part but I have absolutely no experience of ImageMagik. > > > Tom > > > [1]http://www.defusion.org.uk/demos/060519/cropper.php > > -- > > Tom Haskins-Vaughan > > Temple Street Media: Design and Development for the Web > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] |www.templestreetmedia.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
